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Elaborate the concept of constitutional morality as given by B.R. Ambedkar.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Visions of Social Change in India

Constitutional morality appears nowhere in the text of the Constitution. It is B. R. Ambedkar's, set out in the Constituent Assembly on 4 November 1948 while introducing the Draft Constitution, and borrowed from the historian George Grote's A History of Greece. Its claim is sociological, not legal: a constitution is machinery, and machinery works only…

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  • What Ambedkar took from Grote
  • Why Ambedkar thought India lacked it
  • Sociological force of the idea
  • Judicial afterlife and the critique
  • Conclusion

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